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Newsjock

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Fri Dec 12, 2014, 01:25 PM Dec 2014

Buffalo cop suspended for repeatedly hitting man with nightstick, caught on video

Source: WKBW Buffalo

Buffalo Police Officer Corey Krug was caught on camera by one of our 7 Eyewitness News Photographers, hitting a man with his baton, early on Thanksgiving morning.

Krug is off the job and is suspended without pay. Police are looking into the video and what Krug is recorded doing.

... With his nightstick in hand, Officer Corey Krug stormed down Chippewa Street, early Thanksgiving morning. Video shows him going to confront a man, who was seemingly about to get into a fight. But confrontation quickly turned physical.

... After 7 Eyewitness News showed the tape to the Buffalo Police Commissioner Dan Derenda, Krug was suspended without pay indefinitely.

Read more: http://www.wkbw.com/news/buffalo-police-officer-suspended-for-beating-man
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Buffalo cop suspended for repeatedly hitting man with nightstick, caught on video (Original Post) Newsjock Dec 2014 OP
Suspended? What does a Buffalo cop have to do to get fired? Laffy Kat Dec 2014 #1
So I guess videos only matter Politicalboi Dec 2014 #2

Laffy Kat

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1. Suspended? What does a Buffalo cop have to do to get fired?
Fri Dec 12, 2014, 01:59 PM
Dec 2014

On second thought, don't answer that; I don't want to know.

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